Stanford receives $2 million for laboratory modernization

STANFORD -- Malcolm R. Beasley, professor of applied physics, is the
project director for a $2 million grant from the National Science Foundation
for the renovation of the McCullough Building. Stanford was one of 69
colleges and universities that received $52.8 million to modernize
laboratories and research areas as part of NSF's Academic Research
Infrastructure program.

Stanford's grant application was submitted as part of a plan to
establish a new materials center, called the Laboratory for Advanced
Materials. According to Beasley, the new laboratory will focus more
intensively on creating novel materials than does the existing Center for
Materials Research. It also will be oriented toward developing materials for
the future, rather than studying those of current interest. Specific areas of
study will be high- temperature superconductors and new optical and magnetic
materials, he says.

The renovations involved have been incorporated in the new Science and
Engineering Quad project announced in October. The $2 million from NSF is
being added to $32 million from the administration and the $77.4 million
pledged by alumni David Packard and William Hewlett to establish the new
mini-campus.

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